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Rene Lalique Art Nouveau 1903 Aquamarine Enamel 18 Karat Yellow Gold Four Dragonflies Antique Brooch Pendant Necklace
Rene Lalique Art Nouveau 1903 Aquamarine Enamel 18 Karat Yellow Gold Four Dragonflies Antique Brooch Pendant Necklace
- Designed as a ultramarine blue champlevé enamel baton link chain suspending an ornately enchanting pendant
- Depicting four dragonflies clustered as a mirrored formation with paillonné enamel bodies
- Transparent ultramarine blue to green over metallic foil throughout body
- Featuring plique-à-jour enamel wings with transparent bluish green enamel
- Dragonflies are clustered around a pair of mirrored pear cut aquamarines
- Weighing approximately 11.00 carats total - transparent medium blue in color
- Set with talon prongs in decorous draped garland motif mountings
- Pendant is removable via spring clasp closure on chain
- Brooch is completed by hinged pinstem with locking closure
- Tested as 18 karat gold
- Fully signed for Rene Lalique
- Circa: 1903
- Acknowledged as one of the few renditions of the Quatre Libellules design
- As illustrated in his personal sketches, India ink and gouache on BFK-Rives paper
- Similar editions captured in print in Sigrid Barten, Rene Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d’Art, 1890-1910, Munchen, 1977, p. 343-344
- Brooch Measures: 2 7/8 x 2 3/4 inches
- Chain Length: 23 7/8 inches
- Total Length: 26 3/4 inches
- Total Weight: 26.0 grams
- Stock Number We-15850
$375,000.00
Rene Lalique Art Nouveau 1903 Aquamarine Enamel 18 Karat Yellow Gold Four Dragonflies Antique Brooch Pendant Necklace—
$375,000.00
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Rene Lalique Art Nouveau 1903 Aquamarine Enamel 18 Karat Yellow Gold Four Dragonflies Antique Brooch Pendant Necklace
- Designed as a ultramarine blue champlevé enamel baton link chain suspending an ornately enchanting pendant
- Depicting four dragonflies clustered as a mirrored formation with paillonné enamel bodies
- Transparent ultramarine blue to green over metallic foil throughout body
- Featuring plique-à-jour enamel wings with transparent bluish green enamel
- Dragonflies are clustered around a pair of mirrored pear cut aquamarines
- Weighing approximately 11.00 carats total - transparent medium blue in color
- Set with talon prongs in decorous draped garland motif mountings
- Pendant is removable via spring clasp closure on chain
- Brooch is completed by hinged pinstem with locking closure
- Tested as 18 karat gold
- Fully signed for Rene Lalique
- Circa: 1903
- Acknowledged as one of the few renditions of the Quatre Libellules design
- As illustrated in his personal sketches, India ink and gouache on BFK-Rives paper
- Similar editions captured in print in Sigrid Barten, Rene Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d’Art, 1890-1910, Munchen, 1977, p. 343-344
- Brooch Measures: 2 7/8 x 2 3/4 inches
- Chain Length: 23 7/8 inches
- Total Length: 26 3/4 inches
- Total Weight: 26.0 grams
- Stock Number We-15850
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- Designed as a ultramarine blue champlevé enamel baton link chain suspending an ornately enchanting pendant
- Depicting four dragonflies clustered as a mirrored formation with paillonné enamel bodies
- Transparent ultramarine blue to green over metallic foil throughout body
- Featuring plique-à-jour enamel wings with transparent bluish green enamel
- Dragonflies are clustered around a pair of mirrored pear cut aquamarines
- Weighing approximately 11.00 carats total - transparent medium blue in color
- Set with talon prongs in decorous draped garland motif mountings
- Pendant is removable via spring clasp closure on chain
- Brooch is completed by hinged pinstem with locking closure
- Tested as 18 karat gold
- Fully signed for Rene Lalique
- Circa: 1903
- Acknowledged as one of the few renditions of the Quatre Libellules design
- As illustrated in his personal sketches, India ink and gouache on BFK-Rives paper
- Similar editions captured in print in Sigrid Barten, Rene Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d’Art, 1890-1910, Munchen, 1977, p. 343-344
- Brooch Measures: 2 7/8 x 2 3/4 inches
- Chain Length: 23 7/8 inches
- Total Length: 26 3/4 inches
- Total Weight: 26.0 grams
- Stock Number We-15850
